note 29170 added to language.types.float

just a comment on something the "Floating point precision" inset, which goes: "This is related to .... 0.3333333." While the author probably knows what they are talking about, this loss of precision has nothing to do with decimal notation, it has to do with representation as a floating-point binary in a finite register, such as while 0.8 terminates in decimal, it is the repeating 0.110011001100... in binary, which is truncated. 0.1 and 0.7 are also non-terminating in binary, so they are also truncated, and the sum of these truncated numbers does not add up to the truncated binary representation of 0.8 (which is why (floor)(0.8*10) yields a different, more intuitive, result). However, since 2 is a factor of 10, any number that terminates in binary also terminates in decimal. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.float.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+29170 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+29170 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+29170